John 3:34
Good News Translation
The one whom God has sent speaks God's words, because God gives him the fullness of his Spirit.

New Revised Standard Version
He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Contemporary English Version
The Son was sent to speak God's message, and he has been given the full power of God's Spirit.

New American Bible
For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God. He does not ration his gift of the Spirit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

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John 7:16 Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

John 8:26-28,40,47 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world. . . .

for God.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

John 1:16 And of his fulness we all have received: and grace for grace.

John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 7:37-39 And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. . . .

John 15:26 But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.

John 16:7 But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.

Numbers 11:25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards.

2 Kings 2:9 And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Eliseus said: I beseech thee, that in me may be thy double spirit.

Psalm 45:7 Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Isaiah 11:2-5 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. . . .

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Isaiah 62:1-3 For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp. . . .

Romans 8:2 For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death.

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

Ephesians 4:7-13 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the giving of Christ. . . .

Colossians 1:19 Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell:

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporeally.

Revelation 21:6 And he said to me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega: the Beginning and the End. To him that thirsteth, I will give of the fountain of the water of life, freely.

Revelation 22:1,16,17 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. . . .

Context
John's Testimony about Jesus
33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. 34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure. 35The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his hand.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:18
Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

Luke 4:18
The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

Acts 1:2
Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.

Acts 10:38
Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

John 3:33
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